NO. 13 SOVIET ANTIIR0P0L0(;Y — FIELD (fj 



UKRAINE 



According to Boriskovskii ^ the earliest site in the Ukraine is the 

 Lower Mousterian station at Kodak, on the right bank of the Dnieper, 

 discovered in 1927 during construction of the dam at Dnejiropetrovsk. 

 Fhnt flakes were found in association with mammoth, Siberian rlii- 

 noceros, great-horned deer, reindeer, bison, bear, and Hon. 



Boriskovskii has given a popular but carefully written presenta- 

 tion,* attractively illustrated,' of the Paleolithic cultures from the first 

 large-scale excavations by Khvoiko in 1893 to the latest fmcls up to 

 1940 at the famous sites of Mc/.in, Gontsi, and Pushkari. 



Boriskovskii concludes with a description of the Neolithic finds 

 at Mariupol, where in 1930 were found 124 burials with rich polished- 

 stone and bone inventories. 



CRIMEA 



Chcrsoncsus. — Excavations in Ciiersonesus," begun in 1827 and 

 interrupted in 1914, were renewed in 1926. During this era they were 



in Central Asia, pp. 26-35 ; Soviet Types, pp. 36-39 ; and List of Scientific Insti- 

 tutions and Branches of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., pp. 40-126. 

 The plates include: 1-48, exhibits in lAE; 49-95, Lake Onega rock cnRravings; 

 96-101, Minusinsk bronzes; 102-106, gold treasure from Abakan near Minusinsk; 

 107-111, Central Asia; 112-116, reconstructions by M. Gerasimov ; 117-118, 

 leather coat restored in State Historical Museum, Moscow; 119, Zaraut-Sai 

 rock-shelter paintings; 120-130, exhibits in Museum of Oriental Civilizations, 

 Moscow; 131-134, anthropometric form used in Museum of .Vnthropology and 

 Ethnography; 135, map of Moscow locating museums. Supplementary material 

 has been placed on the following Microfilms in the American Documentation 

 Institute: Nos. 2214, 2307, 2310, 2344, 2414, 2415. 



See also Lauriston Ward's Reference List of the .\rcheoloRy of the Soviet 

 Union, Harvard University, January 1947. (Mimeographed.) 



s Boriskovskii, P. I., Liudina kamianogo viku na Ukraini [Stone Age man 

 in the Ukraine!. Institute of Archaeology. Academy of Sciences of tl»e 

 Ukrainian S.S.R., p. 128. Kiev, 1940. [In Ukrainian.] 



♦ The book is divided into eight chapters : i, Glacial peritxl ; 2. Earliest human 

 traces; 3, Transition to the Upper Paleolithic; 4. Mizin; 5, Lower Paleolithic 

 man near Kiev; 6, Gontsi; 7, End of Lower Paleolithic; 8, Neolithic. 



5 This account has some of the charm of Breasted's "Ancient Times." Tlw 

 interest is particularly enhanced by numerous line drawings, some of them 

 really inspired, of Paleolithic fauna and implements. Illustrations include re- 

 constructions, on the basis of recent finds of such Quaternary fauna as the 

 Siberian rhinoceros, cave bear, and cave lion. Of special interest arc the 

 original reconstructions of tools and dwellings. (E. P.) 



« Translated by Mrs. David Huxley from the French summar)- in Xfaterialy i 

 Issledovaniia po Arkheologii SSSR. No. 4. PP 2/5-278. Moscow an.l Leningrad. 

 1941. Minor editorial revisions have been made to conform to our style. (H. F.) 



